Annoying Life Lemons

Annoying Life Lemons

Good Morning Dodgers!  It is one of those beautiful sunny cool autumn days here.  I’m sitting on my little patio with my coffee enjoying the day.  The Maple trees are putting on their showy fall coats of red, orange and yellow, like they are playing a game of who wears it better.  Glorious Autumn!

Little Lemons

My chat today is not about the big life lemons that come our way, but the smaller ones.  More like that lemon seed that gets stuck in your straw as you sip your lemony cocktail.  Just plain annoying!  Annoying at the time, but makes me laugh afterward.  And with the world in the state it’s in right now, heading to hell in a hand basket…who can’t use a laugh?

So let me set the scene….

I live in a really nice basement apartment in a house, with lovely people living above me.  We share a laundry room, but the washer has been giving us trouble…it doesn’t like to spin out the clothes, I know it’s hard work but that’s part of your job washer!  I know this is hard work because twice now I’ve had to wring out a soaking wet load, rinse by hand and wring it out again!  Ok washer you win this one.  I’m going to the Laundromat.  The woman upstairs goes first, so I get the low down on cost, what coinage the machines take etc.  I decide to go early, hoping it’s not too busy cause I’m going to look like an idiot trying to figure out a new to me machine.

Figure it Out!

 So clothes in basket, detergent, coins and off I go.  I pull into the parking lot and nice…not many people.  Two or three people folding clothes (they open sooner than I thought) and one guy just starting his wash.  So I pretend to be going through my coin purse, but actually I’m side eyeing him and watching how he works the machine.  The woman upstairs warned me the machines were picky about the coins going in, and she wasn’t wrong.  The last slot took five tries and I had to talk like a sailor to it to get the last coin to stay there.  Swearing under your breath to machines usually works I find.  Ok, got it, straight forward. I’m cooking with gas now, laundry in and wait.

I stand there watching the machine, front loader so it gives me something to watch.  As I glance around I’m pleasantly surprised, it is very new and clean inside.  From the outside it has a weather beaten sign and looks more like somewhere you’d meet your dealer to buy drugs.  Sketchy is putting it mildly.  Anyway as I’m standing there waiting I see the mother and son pair getting ready to leave.  Both are loaded up with folded laundry like a pair of pack mules.  So I head to the door to open it for them  “Thank you so much!” they say…And I reply, suddenly going into retail mode… “You are very welcome, have a great day!”  I caught myself from saying…”Come back and see us again!”  Good lawrd maybe it’s time for me to go back to retail…LOL!

Laundromat Gods

So back to the washing machine channel…the load finishes, I open the door…and there are two pair of my knickers caught on the rubber seal, I picked them up and guess what…they are sopping wet!  Good lawrd all mighty I can’t get away from sopping wet laundry!  Thank goodness it was just my under drawers and not the towels!  So I take my drawers cupped in my hands, to hold the water so I don’t make a mess on the floor, and go looking for a sink.  I’m wandering the entire place with my hands up high holding my drawers like I’m offering up a sacrifice to the Laundromat gods!  No sink…what to do???  I find a large garbage can, that will have to do.  I wring out my underwear and throw everything back in my basket and get out of there.  The dryer still works at home.

As I’m leaving I notice the security camera in the ceiling…LOL  Well at least someone will have a laugh wondering what the old woman was doing wandering around holding up her wet undies!  Thank gawd I had the place to myself! So a lemon seed stuck in your straw moment, annoying yes…end of the world…no.

Life Experience Wisdom

*When little lemons come your way, laugh about it and go with the flow.

*Be grateful you aren’t dealing with larger problems.

Cheers til next time!­

Grace

My Motto

When life throws baseball size lemons at you, that smack you upside the head, stomp on those damn things and make yourself a cocktail!